This site has been set up primarily for anyone
with a connection to or an interest in the BRANDL surname.
This includes
name variants such as Brendl, Prandl, Brandel, Praendl, Brindel,
Brindl,
Prendl, Prentl, Prantl, Brandle, Brandli, Brendli, Brandal, Prandell,
Brundell.

BRANDLs are and have been living mainly in the German-speaking
parts of Europe (concentrating in Bavaria &Austria)
and quite
a few immigrated to the USA. Therefore our site will mainly concentrate
on these regions of Europe.

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Name
meanings: Ancestry has opened a Learning
Center with services mainly for subscribers.
A few things however are for free, my personal favorite being 'Name
Meanings' with information from the 'Dictionary of American Family
Names'. Added to Research xx-xxx-2005

Social
Security Death Index: Rootsweb offers this very
helpful interactive searchpage for free. Just enter the name(s) you
have, and see what's there. Added to Online-Search xx-xxx-2005

Austria-Hungary Maps:
The Eötvös Loránd University Budapest has published several
detailed maps which aren't available yet in print. In particular the
maps of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy from 1910 may
be helpful to genealogists. Added to Localities xx-xxx-2005

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Launch a General Search in indexes, databases
and vital records (US) at Rootsweb.com

The Ellis Island Passenger
Manifest database contains information on over 22 million immigrants that
came through Ellis Island, NY, between 1892 and 1924. Start searching
your immigrant-ancestor directly from our Search-Page

Internet Medieval Sourcebook - Maps
and Images of the world (with some gaps), spanning a pretty wide period
of time

The David Rumsey Map Collection"... contains to date over 7,180 maps online and focuses on
rare 18th and 19th century North and South America cartographic history
materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia and Africa are also
represented."

Find a location and show it on a map with the ShtetlSeeker
(Central & Eastern Europe-CEE)

The Harmsworth Atlas
and Gazetteer (1908-09, London). The description says: "...
it presents the maximum geographic scope of the three great European empires
(Austria / Hungary, Germany and Russia) just prior to their dissolution
at the end of World War I (1918-1919). Certainly worth a look.
[Not found 130303; alternative
link]

List of all the
places in Bavaria, including small villages being part of a town (as
of 1964). Shows placename, town, ZIP, district and county. You'll btw
find several villages named BRANDL or similar.

Database of over 20,000 locations
east of the Oder and Neisse rivers, based on the borders of the eastern
German provinces in Spring 1918. Excellent starting point for searching
former German places that have changed names once or more.

Rootsweb's Genealogy
Resources on the Internet give lots of hints and links to helpful
sites. Also worth a look is the Rootsweb
Homepage. Has records, references, tools, help, tips & tricks.
And also free webspace if you want to put your family tree on the web.

The Worldgen Web Project offers
a broad variety of resources and links for worldwide genealogical research

Repository
of Primary Sources on the Web - showing a comprehensive country index.
Although I didn't count them, it looks like there's not a single country
missing.

German and German-American
FAQs (Frequently asked Questions). Written for the soc.genealogy.german
newsgroup to help genealogists " ... who are getting started, either
with genealogy or with the Internet."